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Los Angeles, CA has a population of 3.98M people with a median age of 35.6 and a median household income of $54,432. Between 2015 and 2016 the population of Los Angeles, CA grew from 3.97M to 3.98M, a 0.11% increase and its median household income grew from $52,024 to $54,432, a 4.63% increase.
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Los Angeles County, CA has a population of 10.1M people with a median age of 36.3 and a median household income of $61,338. Between 2015 and 2016 the population of Los Angeles County, CA declined from 10.2M to 10.1M, a 0.32% decrease and its median household income grew from $59,134 to $61,338, a 3.73% increase.
LA is a tech hub, with $ x ,000 tech jobs roughhty x% of the nation …. COmpanies like Amazon, Tesla, etc …have headquarters in Los Angeles. It is a vibrant segment of the economy. While California is the 7th economy in the world, Los Angeles is the 24th economy in the world bigger than countries like ….
Let’s take a look at the tech industry employment [1] numbers for the past 13 years.
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Figure 1 shows the total jobs in the city of Los Angeles and County.
Figure 2 shows the grownth of all jobs in the city of Los Angeles and County.
Figure 3 shows the total tech jobs in the city of Los Angeles and County.
Figure 4 represents the year over year grownth of Tech jobs in the city of Los Angeles anc County.
California is the center of high-tech and innovation in the world. [18].
Fig. 8 shows the association between the 2012 CHCI and the 2016 median household income of 282 zip codes in L.A. County. We can see a very strong correlation correlation between the human capital level [23] and the household income for the zip code in L.A. It demonstrates the importance to invest in education (chci) in order to create more productive workforce and more high paying jobs.
Source - 5-year American Community Survey 2012-2016 Global Innovation Index 2018, World Bank Population Data 2016, Q11 - Current country of residence [19-21]
Shape Files - https://data.lacity.org/ Los Angeles Open Data ACS
#googleWalkout [2] and is bad business - says Forbes [3]. In Fig. 1 (above), we use superhero-themes #batman #wonderwoman to visualize the heavy topic of #gender_equality in #datascience. See a bar chart for a more accurate breakdown [4]. Source: survey question Q1 - What is your gender? Sample size = 23,859 respondents